Dataobservability

How it works

How data observability works, end to end

Connect a warehouse, auto-generate monitors, get alerted when data breaks, and track each incident to resolution. Here is exactly what happens at every step.

In one paragraph

Data observability works by continuously reading your warehouse metadata to monitor freshness, volume, schema, and anomalies on every table, building end-to-end lineage from your dbt project, and alerting your team the moment a monitor fires. Each break becomes a tracked incident with root-cause hints and the downstream tables, dashboards, and exports it affects, so you fix the right thing before stakeholders notice.

01

Connect your warehouse

Authorize read-only access to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift. We read metadata and information-schema statistics, not your rows, so the connection is fast and low-risk. Most teams finish in about 5 minutes.

  • Read-only metadata access
  • Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift
  • No rows copied, metadata-first
02

Auto-generate monitors

We read your dbt manifest and your warehouse schema to auto-create monitors across all 5 pillars on every table, no YAML required. ML-tuned thresholds learn each tables normal behavior so alerts stay high-signal from day one.

  • Auto-monitors on every table
  • dbt-native, reads your manifest
  • ML thresholds learn the baseline
03

Get alerted when data breaks

When freshness, volume, schema, or distribution breaks, related alerts group into one incident and route to Slack or PagerDuty with severity and ownership. No wall of cron emails, no alert fatigue.

  • Slack and PagerDuty
  • Grouped, severity-routed alerts
  • Low-noise by design
04

Track to resolution

Each break opens an incident with root-cause hints and the downstream lineage impact. Assign an owner, diagnose with the lineage graph, resolve, and keep the history so you can measure and reduce data downtime over time.

  • Auto-opened incidents
  • Downstream impact from lineage
  • History and MTTR tracking
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Architecture

Metadata-first, so monitoring stays cheap and safe

We read warehouse metadata and statistics rather than scanning your tables. That keeps compute cost tiny and means your rows never leave your environment.

Reads metadata, not rows

Freshness, volume, and schema monitors run on information-schema and account-usage statistics, so most checks touch no table data at all.

Sampled, scheduled deep checks

Distribution and null checks sample intelligently and run on a cadence you control, so warehouse credits stay predictable.

Your data stays put

On Enterprise, an in-VPC deployment means data never leaves your environment. Self-serve plans are read-only and SOC 2 aligned.

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See it live

Watch the whole flow in one console

SNOWFLAKE · PROD
247 tables |
Break a monitor:

Alerted #data-eng 0.8s ago.

Downstream impact · consumers at risk

INCIDENT #1042 OPEN · owner @you

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Connect a warehouse and watch monitors generate across every table. Transparent pricing, no credit card.